Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3429, Henry Folkner, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
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★ Folkner, Henry or Falkner,
R. 3429
CONTENTS

No 35233 Oct 7 th June 1832 Henry Falkner. Legs Set Hon. J. M. Blackwell Dec 20 th 1842.
3429

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
3/29/73
P. O. Henry Falkner
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 35.123 H. Falkner Henry Falkner
Durham Jen.
Act 7 June '32

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Tennessee
Knox County ss On this 2 nd day of December 1844 personally appeared in open Court before the Worshipful County Court Henry Falkner a resident in the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the war of the Revolution December 20 th 1782 Seventeen hundred and eighty two in the Town of Winchester in the State of Virginia in Capt Samuel Clarke's Troop of Cavalry for during the war declared marched marched from Winchester Virginia to Norfolk under the command of Gen Morgan and was then stationed in the Peachtree Rd in view of the town and was then discharged in November 1783 at the close of the war he further declares that he received his discharge from Gen Morgan and on his return home from the service he lost his discharge in crossing the Shenandoah River with all of his affiants stating the loss of which is the cause and reason why he now makes application for a pension before he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity as at the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year last
where written affiant further declares that his name the Rolls may of been split Falkner or Fortner
Henry his Falkner mark

We Henry Baldwin & Robert H. Luttrell, residing in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted Henry Falkner who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbo- rhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year above written
State of Tennessee Knox County } ss
Henry Baldwin (S) Robert H. Luttrell (S)
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogato- ries of the proceedings of the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry Baldwin Robert H. Luttrell who signed the preceding certification reside in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit
State of Tennessee Knox County } ss
J. G. W. G. Goad
Clerk of the County Court of Knox County Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court at its December Term 1844 in the matter.

of the application of Henry Falkner for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Offutt in P. Noo. ville This 6 th day of December 1844.
Geo M. C. Cox, Clerk.
I, J. W. Blackwell representative in the 28 th Congress of the U.S. from Tennessee, do certify that, Geo. M. C. Cox, whose name appears to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the time it bears date, Clerk of the County Court of Knox County Tennessee, duly elected, commissioned and qualified according to Law, and that, the signature appears to be genuine.
Given under my hand this 16 th day of December 1844.
J. W. Blackwell